B"H
Yom Yom
from Day by Day in Jewish History
by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l
[12 Sivan]
Agudat Yisrael was founded, in Poland, 1912.
Jews of Ethiopia observed Shavuot on the 12th of Sivan, 50 days after Pesach. They did not interpret "from the day after Shabbat" as the Tzadokim did, but rather as traditional Judaism did. Except that they considered Shabbat to refer to the whole holiday of Pesach (or the last day of Yom Tov). It puts their Shavuot on the last day of our "fill in days" for Shavuot. Assumedly, when the Ethiopian Jews came to Israel, they readjusted their calendar.
[June 15]
Jews of Genoa were expelled, 1567.
12 Jews of Cologne were martyred, 1266.
[13 Sivan]
30 Jews of Posing, Hungary, were charged with blood-ritual and burned, 1529.
[June 16]
Massacre of the Jews of Erfurt, Germany, 1221. Formerly observed as a fast day (25 Sivan)
[14 Sivan]
First attack on the Jewish community of Frankfort on the Main. The Jewish Quarter was destroyed and most of the Jews were massacred, 1241.
Germany's emperor recinded an order to burn all Hebrew books found in Cologne and Frankfort, 1510.
Auto-da-fe claimed the lives of 24 Jews in Barcelona, 1588.
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin, 1821.
[June 17]
The central system of the underground water supply was dedicated in the northern Negev, 1951.
[15 Sivan]
Traditional date for the birth of Yehuda.
The Crusaders laid siege to Yerushalayim, 1099.
King of Poland denied the Jews of Vilna the right to deal in non-Jewish books, 1664. (On this kind of entry, don't just read the fact - ponder the possible motives.)
Israeli forces crossed into Lebanon to destroy PLO bases, 1982.
[June 18]
Beginning of the War of 1812.
Napolean's Waterloo, 1815 (the term became to mean a crushing defeat, but the one referred to here was the original, literal Waterloo.)
[16 Sivan]
The beginning of a substantial Jewish settlement in Massachusetts, 1716.
French (Vichy) planes bombed Tel Aviv, 1941.
[June 19]
First Soviet citizen (Jewish) to be issued an immigrant visa to Israel - try guessing the year before you look - 1951. The hoped-for easing of the Russian policy of not letting its citizens out did not materialize for decades to come.
Panama and Costa Rica (whose embassy is one of the two in Jerusalem) recognized Israel, 1948.
Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg was imprisoned, 1286.
King Louis IX of France decreed that all Jews must wear the distinctive yellow badge, 1269.
[17 Sivan]
No'ach's Ark rested on Mt. Ararat.
Chashmona'im captured and settled Migdal Tzur. The date was observed as a holiday.
[June 20]
20 Jews were killed in a bombing in the Jewish Quarter of Cairo, 1948.
Haidamack uprising cost 50,000 Ukranian Jews their lives, 1768.
Mass killings of Jews by the Nazis began, 1942 at Auschwitz.
4,000 Jews were killed in Toledo, Spain, 1391.
[18 Sivan]
The city of Acco was captured by Muslims, 1291, bringing to an end the Christian domination of Eretz Yisrael.
The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (parent organization of the Israel Center) was founded, 1898.
The Nazis in control of France ordered Jews to wear a yellow star with the word "Juif" on it, 1942.
Spain passed a law granting Jews and Protestants the right of public worship, including permission to mark their places of worship and advertise their religious services. This was the first such law since Ferdinand and Isabella proclaimed Catholicism as Spain's only religion. This law was passed in - guess the year - 1967. (Not 1697; 1967!)
[June 21]
The Rhodes Conference on the Israeli-Arab war opened, 1948.
Himmler ordered the destruction of all Russian ghettos, 1943.
Citizens of Nuremberg, Bavaria received permission to expel its Jews, 1498. (Read that one again, and think about it).
[19 Sivan]
First Jewish hospital in America, 1855.
Yahrzeit of R. Shmuel Mohilever, pioneer of religious Zionism in Russia, 1898.
[June 22]
Germany invaded Lithuania and Latvia, 1941.
The Jewish Brigade, attached to the British Army in World War II was formed, 1942.The Jewish Quarter of Prague was burned looted, 1559.
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